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19 Books to Pick Up This October

The Lost Detective

By Nathan Ward

Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 240

A gritty portrait of the 20th century's great pulp poet Dashiell Hammett, who turned his days gumshoeing for the Pinkerton Detective Agency into bawdy and muscular American classics.

— Natalie Beach

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